Ciarán Cuffe (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)
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Question 295: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in the interest of reducing paper use, her Department has plans to relax or drop the requirement to supply three or more hard copies of tender documentation and to move towards greater use of electronic documentation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39738/08]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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As the Deputy will be aware, public procurement rules do not specify the number of copies of tender documents to be submitted and they permit contracting authorities to require the submission of tenders solely by electronic means. The e-tenders website provides this facility and this was utilised in a recent competition carried out by my Department. My Department is committed to increasing the use of electronic tender documentation where possible.